The Waker

Devlog

• Devlog #27: Late night coding
  December 04, 2025 by neyoe_j

  Hi, Today I have just been starting on the item system. So far the player just presses a key to place to a tripwire, the purple thing you can see in the image. However, I will need to have multiple bu... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #26: I am not dead
  December 03, 2025 by neyoe_j

  Hi guys, I have had a lot of things going on recently, and this project really just got pushed back in the list of priorities. I have had time to work on it, but not really the mental energy after eve... Continue reading
• Devlog #25: Sorry, nothing again today
  October 26, 2025 by neyoe_j

  Sorry, I don't have anything to update you guys on today. I have an exam for a uni course coming up in a couple days and I haven't attended a single lecture. It is fine though because all of the conte... Continue reading
• Devlog #24: More UI for corpses
  October 25, 2025 by neyoe_j

  Hi, spent a bit of time on corpse UI today, namely the button to add it to the players inventory. From left to right: what it normally looks like, when you are hovering you mouse over the button, and... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #23: Start of corpse UI
  October 24, 2025 by neyoe_j

  Hey yo, Quickly threw together this UI for corpse info. I will make it pretty later, once most of the functionality is done, because I may end up having to change things around to fit said functionali... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #22: Uni work got in the way
  October 24, 2025 by neyoe_j

  Forgot to post yesterday, I spent pretty much the whole day doing university stuff. But I am going to start working on the game for a bit now! I'll make another post later when I am finished... Continue reading
• Devlog #21: Today I did nothing because I was playing Baldur's Gate 3
  October 22, 2025 by neyoe_j

  So, today I was meant to start on corpse inventory UI. I would like to say I was busy with other programming projects, but while that is partly true, I also spent half of the day playing Baldur's Gate... Continue reading
• Devlog #20: Little bit of UI
  October 21, 2025 by neyoe_j

  Hello, Today I didn't do a whole lot, just added a display for the player's health and strength, as well as fixed the issue with path tiles being removed during generation that would result in paths "... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #19: Enemy attacks
  October 20, 2025 by neyoe_j

  Hi, had a bit of time today, which I spent on some minor improvements to the enemy detection (namely the shape of the circle around the enemies in which they can hear the player), an indicator for whe... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #18: Yet another nothing day, unfortunately
  October 19, 2025 by neyoe_j

  Hi, unfortunately this is, yet again, another 'nothing' day. If I find some time later, I will update this, but currently it is looking like that won't be happening... Continue reading
• Devlog #17: Thinking day
  October 18, 2025 by neyoe_j

  Hello, today I spent a little bit of time thinking about the gameplay in a bit more detail and writing down some ideas. I haven't got everything fully worked out, but I think the player will be able t... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #16: The post I forgot to make yesterday
  October 18, 2025 by neyoe_j

  Hello, this is the post I forgot to make yesterday. Right now I am just trying to come up with ideas, it is likely I won't get to coding today either... Continue reading
• Devlog #15: Nothing again, feel free to skip
  October 17, 2025 by neyoe_j

  Hello, I just realised that I forgot to post yesterday. Not that I made any progress, but I would still like to post everyday. I will make another post later today, though I do not know if I will have... Continue reading
• Devlog #14: Nothing...
  October 15, 2025 by neyoe_j

  Hello, I have not actually done any work on this game today. I have been a bit busy and I do not think I will do anything tomorrow, either. When I do get back to it, first order of business, like I me... Continue reading
• Devlog #13: Corpses
  October 14, 2025 by neyoe_j

  Hey guys, I added in corpses today, didn't take me too long. As you can see in the screenshot, they just randomly generate around the map. Yeah really short update today and honestly tomorrow will pro... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #12: More improvements to enemy AI
  October 13, 2025 by neyoe_j

  I made a little more progress on the enemy detection and movement today. Now the enemies can't see you through non-path tiles, but they can also hear you when you move within a certain distance. They... Continue reading
• Devlog #11: Not a whole lot of progress, but a little
  October 12, 2025 by neyoe_j

  Hello, I only spent about half an hour on this today, but I did a little bit of work on the enemy pathfinding and detection system. Not really much more to say than that, unfortunately. I also don't t... Continue reading
• Devlog #10: Enemy movement
  October 11, 2025 by neyoe_j

  I only had about an hour and a half today, but I am pretty happy with how I went. I hadn't gotten up to testing the A* pathfinding yesterday and I found out today that it didn't actually work, so ther... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #9: A* pathfinding
  October 10, 2025 by neyoe_j

  Hi guys, I got an okay amount done today. I added in code for enemies and mostly implemented their pathfinding using A*. Just missing the final step, which is actually moving to follow the path, but I... Continue reading
• Devlog #8: Not a whole lot to write today
  October 09, 2025 by neyoe_j

  Not much got done today, to be honest. I didn't get as much time to work on it as I wanted to and I spent a lot of the time I did have getting distracted discovering new music... whoops. One of the so... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #7: I think path generation is FINALLY finished
  October 08, 2025 by neyoe_j

  Crazy that it was already 5 days ago that I started to work on path generation... It is way more difficult than I had anticipated. I wasn't really able to work on it much today, however I think I am p... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #6: I think the path generation is getting there
  October 07, 2025 by neyoe_j

  Hi all! In the image above you can see where I am up to in terms of path generation. I think it is looking a whole lot better. I ended up doing what I said I was going to do in the last devlog, with p... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #5: Lots of bumbling around
  October 06, 2025 by neyoe_j

  Today I mostly just floundered about trying to figure out how to do this path generation thing, without really making much progress. My brain was just not really working for me today. I think I need t... Continue reading
• Devlog #4: Improving path generation
  October 05, 2025 by neyoe_j#devlog, #the-waker

  Hi, just a short update today. I was busy for a large portion of today and the F1 starts in 10 minutes. I fixed the issue with the path generation getting stuck and added branching. I think it is an i... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #3: Path generation
  October 04, 2025 by neyoe_j#devlog, #the-waker

  Hi guys! This path generation stuff is taking me way longer to figure out than I thought. I think it is mostly done, though there is one problem where the algorithm can get stuck in edge cases where i... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #2: Chunk system and player movement
  October 03, 2025 by neyoe_j#devlog, #the-waker

  Progress has been kind of slow today, but I did manage to pretty much achieve what I wanted to. I have got the chunk system so the map is essentially infinite and player movement. The latter it pretty... Continue reading

  
• Devlog #1: My initial ideas for this game
  October 02, 2025 by neyoe_j#devlog

  Hello to whoever may be reading this! I have been into game development for a couple years, however, outside of the GMTK Game Jam this year, I have never finished a game. At the end of this video by T... Continue reading